Getting Tenure

This practical guide clarifies the tenure process and gives concrete advice for graduate students and junior faculty members on the strategy required to maximize the chance of achieving tenure. The authors explain the agenda of tenure decisions, emphasizing the need to think politically and focus attention on the priorities of the decision makers.

List of contents

Thinking About Tenure
Managing Your Tenure Case
The Prologue to Tenure
Stepping Through the Tenure Process
Meeting the Research Criterion
Meeting the Teaching Criterion
Meeting the Service Criterion
Paths to Tenure
The Ten Commandments of Tenure Success

About the author

Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld is a professor in the Sociology Program in the School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University. Her research areas are medical sociology and aging and the life course with a special focus on health policy, health care utilization, and health behavior. She has recently published Medicare by Greenwood Press (2011) and serves as the editor of the research annual Research in the Sociology of Health and Health Care published each year by Emerald Press. She is co-editor of Health and Associate Editor In Chief of American Journal of Health Promotion. Her current research interests in addition to health policy include research on gender and health, and research on aspects of obesity as linked to social factors.

Summary

This practical guide clarifies the tenure process and gives concrete advice for graduate students and junior faculty members on the strategy required to maximize the chance of achieving tenure. The authors explain the agenda of tenure decisions, emphasizing the need to think politically and focus attention on the priorities of the decision makers.

Product details

• Authors: Jennie Jacobs Kronefeld, Jennie Kronenfeld, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, Kronenfeld Jennie, Ruth Ann Strickland, Marcia Lynn Whicker, Marcia Lynn Kronenfeld Whicker, Whicker Marcia Lynn, WHICKER MARCIA LYNN KRONENFELD J
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.09.1993
• EAN: 9780803953031
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-5303-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Survival Skills for Scholars (; Survival Skills for Scholars (; Survival Skills for Scholars
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, Post-Graduate Study Skills